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Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Flavoursome medium bodied cabernet blend displaying the fruit generosity of this vintage. Ripe blackcurrant and mulberry aromas with a little savoury plummy character edging in. The palate is packed with ripe black fruit and a little red fruit lift. Subtle leaf and seashell minerally play their role in a smoothly finished young wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Predominantly cabernet and malbec, but a little dollop of merlot and petit verdot completes the picture. This is a wonderfully vibrant and fresh young cabernet blend from a season that required plenty of management of the heat. But it’s been done really well, and the result is a bright, crunchy-fruited blend, striking a really good balance and presence on the...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A perfectly crafted blended red with the cabernet taking the lead and merlot playing a neat support act. Black olive and bay leaf notes merge with a blackcurrant light plummy character. The palate is medium bodied and seamlessly integrated. The chalky fine tannins add that final touch to complete a terrific value red wine.

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Cabernet Blend

Pure, vibrant and highly expressive, this is predominantly cabernet with contributions from merlot, cabernet franc and malbec. Energetic, punchy fruit opens with plummy blackcurrant and a subtle leafy black olive nuance. The palate reveals red fruits and a cedary character, all well integrated and balanced.

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Chardonnay

A racy fresh young chardonnay where fruit is the dominant player and the oak, just faintly, in the background. Flavours of nectarine and lemon with a subtle melony notes merge into a delightfully appealing combination. There's a racy acidity to finish a wine for drinking over the next few years.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a delightful young chardonnay designed for drinking in the shorter term. It was made fairly simply with no additions and then matured in oak for nine months. The aroma of light lemon and melon with a subtle spicy turmeric complexity show immediately. The light-bodied palate has excellent fruit expression with the oak supporting it neatly. Nice modern tyle.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a precise and pure expression of Margaret River chardonnay. Light-bodied with fine chalkiness, it’s complemented by crisp acidity that drives through a long palate. Floral notes lift the nose with lemon curd and subtle roasted cashew. The palate is linear, and the fruit has easily managed nine months in oak. Fermented without additions, it delivers a pure, pristine...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a lovely, pure and vibrant young chardonnay. It was fermented and then matured in oak for about nine months. The result is a wine with good varietal definition, vibrant lemon grapefruit characters on the nose and a pristine and crunchy palate with a little stone-fruit creaminess.

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Malbec

Gee whizz, this is a super-young, fresh red wine for drinking in the next few years. It’s soft and rounded, with supple, generous fruit flavours supported by light, gentle tannin and a lick of understated oak. It’s about the fruit, which is bright and so vibrant. Just dances off the palate.

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Chardonnay

There is a beautiful energising purity about this chardonnay. Fine minerally fruit with a citrus tang worked with some nice nectarine and lemon rind. The oak is neatly infused but it is the fruit that presents so well. Has a such a delightful texture and flavour combination with just a faint hint of struck match complexity.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a terrific example of chardonnay from this close-planted block. The aromas have a pronounced lemon crème brûlée character with a slightly saline influence. The palate is tightly wound with a degree of youthful tension, yet there is real power here that will start to release with ageing. Impressive.

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Chardonnay

An impressive young chardonnay picked early to retain natural vibrancy and freshness, then complemented by 12 months in oak following fermentation. It shows a slight creamy texture, kept neat and tight, with touches of lemon meringue, sea spray and even a hint of turmeric. The palate is long, linear and expressive of the variety.

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Chardonnay

This cooler vintage produced some exceptional chardonnay with a fine delicacy. The remarkable thing with this wine is that after barrel fermentation in 100% French oak and monthly lees stirring, plus full malolactic fermentation it is still lancing linear with a tight minerally focus. Aromas are in the white flower and cut lime zone and the palate has a chalky...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

The old dry-grown vines play a significant role in this cabernet, which year after year delivers so much. It's a fine and elegant style with a mix of blackcurrant and bay leaf with a subtle limestone and graphite minerality. The palate is still tightly held, but within there is excellent fruit concentration and vibrancy. The lift of sage and dried...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine which consistently delivers. It’s based on original vines planted more than 40 years ago. It’s an elegant and most stylish expression of the variety making excellent use of this good red wine vintage. Intense aroma of blackberry and blackcurrant with a leafy oyster shell overlay. The palate is still quite firm with distinctly chalky tannins in support. A...

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Sauvignon Blanc

This has been one of the best and most distinctive wines Woody Nook make and I am a big fan. It's sauvignon blanc fermented in oak with wild yeasts, with monthly lees stirring over seven months. The technique builds on the excellent fruit intensity creating a wine of richness and texture while retaining that natural fruit lift of the savvy....

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Sauvignon Blanc

A distinctive style that Woody Nook has championed for some years. Barrel fermented with wild yeast in second use French oak with monthly lees stirring over seven months maturation. Brings that textural feel into play but retains the essential crisp acidity of the sauvignon blanc. Love the bright minerally and slightly chalky feel which promotes a linear palate.

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Red Blend

Highly scented and perfumed medium bodied blend of two Spanish varieties graciano and tempranillo. The combination of spicy cherry and raspberry merges with the subtle earthy savoury notes. It's supple and juicy with a vibrant fruit lift. Plenty of chalky acid on the finish will support further ageing.

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Red Blend

No, you won’t need a squeeze of lemon in this one. It’s a combination of graciano and tempranillo, two famous Spanish varieties. Spicy red fruit notes with a slightly raspberry and cherry combination. Beautifully weighted palate that is about the fruit with just a little oak adding to the structural integrity. The high acidity makes this ideal as a food...

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Rose

Woody Nook makes this to a house style which includes a small amount of residual sugar. It's made from tempranillo and displays cranberry pomegranate characters with some nice confectionery notes. The palate is light with a delightful fruit mix. A zingy finish with a light touch of residual sugar completes a really nice wine.

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Cabernet Blend

A Bordeaux blend using largely cabernet sauvignon with merlot and cabernet franc. Cabernet provides the power and linear structure while the merlot adds palate filling and the franc that little lift of perfumed red fruit on the nose. Such a poised and well-balanced wine with bright red fruits working with slightly grainy sinewy tannins and a nice oak touch. Everything...

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Red Blend

This is a Bordeaux-type blend that is largely cabernet with smaller percentages of merlot and cab franc. It was a good season in Margaret River, and this has flowed through into this medium-bodied and highly flavoursome, beautifully poised cabernet blend. Highly aromatic with floral violet notes and red berry, and just a trace of blackberry and plum on the palate....

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Shiraz

The fruit for this consistently good shiraz come mostly from a dry-grown low-yielding vineyard. Lots of dark fruit with a ripe plummy richness. It's generous and full-bodied with a slightly savoury black pepper mix. The slightly vanillin influenced notes American oak are evident on the nose, creating a distinctive and individual wine for Woody Nook. Lots of bright fruit with...

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Shiraz

This was a good season for shiraz. Here is generosity plus, with deep colour and intensely concentrated fruit delivered with a degree of finesse. Spicy dark plum and a little leaf and pepper provides an engaging opening. The palate is loaded with soft full fruit with the fine chalky tannins and well managed oak, of which half was new, providing...

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Chenin Blanc

Here's an outstanding wine that shows the resilience of this wonderful white variety even in warm years. This one is a cracker from Margaret River. Has all that you want from the fresh, vibrant melony pear-like characters on the nose through to the deeper melon and lemon zest nuances that pick up the palate. It's vibrant, fresh, with a juicy,...

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Chenin Blanc

Initially on the nose, it shows a degree of delicacy, but once you get into it, it reveals a whole lot more. It's sourced from the original 1982 planting of the Gallica Vineyard. So these vines are getting nice and old and delivering some great fruit. Floral citrus notes with almost a touch of hay and pear. The clean, crisp...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Consistently one of the best cabernets released in Margaret River, and this one from the great '23 vintage is certainly one of the best I have seen. The smooth, seamless balanced integration does feature so prominently. Aromas of blackcurrant, slight bay leaf, and a little chocolatey black olive. And then a palate that picks up all the dark fruits but...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

These old dry-grown vines are producing some excellent fruit. And the balance they achieve is an important part of the wine, especially in years that were so hot, like 2024. The result is a cabernet that's structured with a firm core but with an elegance and refinement that captures those vines so well. There's a leafy blackcurrant, a slightly bay...

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Sauvignon Blanc

Woody Nook has been championing this style of barrel fermented sauvignon blanc for some years. And yet again, it's achieved something special that shows that the humble savvy does have a place if you're prepared to work on it. It was wild yeast fermented and then went into second-use French oak puncheons with regular lees stirring over about eight months....

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This has consistently been one of the best releases from Woody Nook. It was barrel fermented with wild yeast in a mix of new and second-use puncheons with regular lees stirring. It takes the sauvignon blanc into a heady new zone, delivering texture, complexity and intense flavour held with control and precision through to a long finish. There's a slightly...

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Red Blend

The dominant component of this blend is cabernet at 90%, with smaller contributions from merlot and cab franc providing important aromatics and suppleness through the mid-palate. It's a stylish expression of these varieties, medium-bodied and displaying impeccable, seamless balance. This was an outstanding season in Margaret River, with the longer, cooler conditions promoting a combination of red and blackberry fruit,...

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Chardonnay

This is a classy chardonnay that, in many ways, illustrates how Woody Nook has flown under the radar for many years and yet consistently produces outstanding wines like this one. The interesting thing is it was barrel fermented, but in a high percentage, in this case, 80% new French oak puncheons, for about eight months with regular lees stirring. On...

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Chardonnay

There's a marvellous precision about many of the wines from the '25 vintage, and this one captures that. It's from handpicked estate-grown fruit, which went through barrel fermentation in new French oak with regular monthly lees stirring over eight months. That new oak is quite surprising because it certainly doesn't show to excess. It's balanced, seamlessly woven, with a fine...

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Shiraz

Captures all that is good in this wonderful vintage in Margaret River. It's predominantly sourced from the old dry-grown, low-yielding vines on the Gallagher vineyard, and it was treated carefully. After handpicking, it got 18 months in a mix of American and French oak with about 20% of that new. I think the American oak vanillin complexity has added quite...

Margaret River

Shiraz

As you would expect from this warm year, there's plenty of grunt and power in the shiraz, and yet it shows remarkable softness and plushness, no doubt a result of the old dry-grown, low-yielding vines. It spends 18 months in a mix of American and French oak, and I think that American component is quite important. Aromas of dark fruits,...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a tighter and slightly firmer expression of Margaret River cabernet than the 2020, yet there is plenty of power and drive through an intense and concentrated palate. Perfumed aromas of blackcurrant and bay leaf with a trace of edgy black olive. The structural core provides so much poise to a wine that will cellar exceptional well.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An impressive cabernet sauvignon from a season which produced wines of power and volume with a firm structure. This is all of that. The typical blackcurrant aromas are augmented with sweet plummy nuances. The palate is tightly framed with firm tannins and a decent oak influence from the 40% new French oak contribution. The colour is bright and almost luminous....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An impressive cabernet sauvignon from a season which produced wines of power and volume with a firm structure. This is all of that. The typical blackcurrant aromas are augmented with sweet plummy nuances. The palate is tightly framed with firm tannins and a decent oak influence from the 40% new French oak contribution. The colour is bright and almost luminous....

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Cabernet Sauvignon

I've tasted some truly wonderful cabernets from Xanadu under this label over many years, but I have to say I've tasted none better than this. It is a simply wonderful example of Margaret River delivered with poise, power, and a certain panache. Captures the vintage well with the power and yet subtle restraint that it's best known for. It's medium...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A mighty challenge to follow the stellar 2022 and 2023 releases under this label, yet this comes remarkably close. It ticks every box for quality cabernet sauvignon. As has become the house style, there's wonderful elegance, poise and structure. Black currant, bay leaf, black olive and subtle oyster shell minerality create a compelling and complex aromatic opening. The sleek palate...